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Rare disease
Primary angiosarcoma of the thyroid gland in an young Iranian woman
  1. Fariba Binesh1,
  2. Ali Akhavan2,
  3. Hossein Navabii3,
  4. Mohammad Hossein Dadgarnia4,
  5. Vahid Zand5
  1. 1Department of Pathology, Yazd Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran
  2. 2Department of Radiotherapy, Yazd Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran
  3. 3Shahid Sadoghi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran
  4. 4Department of ENT, Yazd Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran
  5. 5Yazd Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran
  1. Correspondence to Dr Fariba Binesh, binesh44{at}yahoo.com

Summary

Angiosarcoma of the thyroid gland is a rare and aggressive primary malignant tumour of the thyroid, originally reported in patient from Swiss Alpine region. Here, the authors describe a case of primary angiosarcoma of the thyroid in an 21-year-old Iranian woman who presented with a rapidly enlarging neck mass associated with compressive symptoms.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.03.2011.4042

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